On Sunday, September 1, SLIPKNOT‘s Sid Wilson performed for the first time since he sustained severe burns in a bonfire explosion.
Reflecting on the performance at the Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, Oklahoma, Wilson shared his thoughts with TMZ: “I’ve been basically bedridden up until then. So, I hadn’t been practicing or anything. And the skin is tighter now, so I have to keep exercising my hand to make sure that the skin doesn’t heal tight as to heal normal.
“So, when I was practicing backstage — I practice for, like, anywhere between three and five hours straight before I play. So, I got about — what did I get? About two hours in? Probably about two hours in, because of the logistics of getting to the show. So, I could feel immediately, like, how much tighter the skin was around my hand and the articulation. The left hand’s not quite as bad as the right. The right arm and hand is pretty bad. The new skin has grown from underneath everything and it’s all flaking off now. We’ve cut most of the skin off.”
Wilson suffered the burns from a bonfire at his farm in Iowa, where he resides with his girlfriend Kelly Osbourne and their two-year-old son, Sidney.
“Kelly‘s been great through the whole thing,” he said. “She’s been the go-between for the nurses and me. So she’s Nurse Kelly. [Laughs] She’s had me on such a strict regimen of just changing everything and cleaning everything, wiping everything, making sure I’m shaving every day, just all the steps they said to do and then some. She goes extra, extra hard. My face has healed incredibly fast. They said it would heal fast. And now it’s just pink where everything was. I have like some acne kind of like looking stuff down my neck and on my cheek, but overall everything’s coming along great. The thing that’s hard right now is being in sunlight. So I kind of feel like a vampire.”
Wilson’s bandmates in SLIPKNOT also released a statement regarding the situation, saying: “Our brother Sid Wilson was in an accident today and sustained burns across his body. He’s recovering with his family and will still join us on stage at Rocklahoma next weekend. He thanks everyone for the well wishes, and will see you all soon.”
The North American leg of SLIPKNOT‘s “Here Comes The Pain” tour is set to resume on September 1 at the Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, Oklahoma.
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